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Scrooge shivered, and wiped the perspiration from his brow. “That is no light part of my penance,” pursued the Ghost. “I am here to-night to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer.”. “You were always a good friend to me,” said Scrooge. “Thank’ee!”.
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- Stave One: Marley's Ghost
Jacob Marley, Scrooge's business partner, has died seven...
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The ghost of Jacob Marley tells his old partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, that, in the afterlife, he is like a "captive, bound, and double-ironed," because he is not only imprisoned by his heavy chains ...
Analysis. The narrator states that there was no doubt about Marley ’s death. Scrooge, Marley’s business partner, signed the register of his burial. The narrator considers that the phrase “dead as a doornail” doesn’t even describe Marley's lifelessness well enough. He adds that Scrooge very much knew that Marley was dead, having been ...
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On a frigid, foggy Christmas Eve in London, a shrewd, mean-spirited cheapskate named Ebenezer Scrooge works meticulously in his counting-house. Outside the office creaks a little sign reading \"Scrooge and Marley\"--Jacob Marley, Scrooge's business partner, has died seven years previous. Inside the office, Scrooge watches over his clerk, a poor dim...
Suddenly, a ruddy-faced young man bursts into the office offering holiday greetings and an exclamatory, \"Merry Christmas!\" The young man is Scrooge's jovial nephew Fred who has stopped by to invite Scrooge to Christmas dinner. The grumpy Scrooge responds with a \"Bah! Humbug!\" refusing to share in Fred's Christmas cheer. After Fred departs, a pa...
The opening Stave of A Christmas Carol sets the mood, describes the setting, and introduces many of the principal characters. It also establishes the novel's allegorical structure. (Allegory, a type of narrative in which characters and events represent particular ideas or themes, relies heavily on symbolism. In this case, Scrooge represents greed, ...
Key quotation: Marley’s torment Marley’s Ghost tells Scrooge of the terrible situation it is in. Its punishment for being too concerned with making money when it was alive is to wander through the world – oh, woe is me! – and witness what [I] cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!
Exam focus: Writing about Marley’s Ghost. Marley’s Ghost carries the concerns Marley had in life. • The chain it carries is made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel (p. 14). • These items symbolise the things Marley spent his life on – they are all related to money and protecting his ...
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Marley’s Ghost’s role in the novella. Jacob Marley was Scrooge’s business partner, and the narrator goes to some lengths to make us accept he is dead. His Ghost appears to Scrooge on Christmas Eve with a warning for Scrooge about the need to change his focus in life from money to ‘mankind’. In the story it:
